Sunday, October 15, 2006

piss be with you

my last post about my music-video-making adventure just vanished into cyberspace air. no damn idea why. my guess is that someone logged into my account (since my password was pretty simple) and erased it. or maybe it was one of those internet cafes where logging out took so much time, i just closed the window, paid up and left, and then the next customer happened upon my blog and decided to have a little fun with it. either way, it baffles me why he/she/it deleted that one entry. why not all my entries, or better yet, why not the whole blog? then i'd just take it as karma because i myself have been guilty of messing around with friendster accounts that werent signed out. still, why just that one post? im quite sure i didnt put anything libelous there. which brings me to another conclusion: it was blogger's fault. something went cuckoo with their servers again and lucky me i suffered the consequences. oh well. cant have it all. your mobile phone gets snatched, you dont get paid on time, your blog post disappears... life sucks, eh? i could retype everything but it wouldnt be exactly the same, plus it's a chore. and im not really into doing something again and again. as ive said before, i never repeat myself (tee-hee!).

i was able to salvage the links from that post though and i thought i should put them here along with some new ones.



a friend of layla's (whom i consider my friend as well of course, i just wanted to associate him with layla more) asked her for help on an upcoming debate contest, because layla and her team won during her time. layla then discussed it with someone who won during his time, which is me. the topic is euthanasia, and unfortunately our friend (there you go) is on the affirmative side. i like debates and am confident that i could triumph on any topic and any side, but this one posed a bit of a challenge. well, only at first because once i found an argument to jumpstart from, layla and i were debating ourselves. anyways, the point of this paragraph actually isnt the debate but religion. one of the "aces" i came up was this: if life is a gift from god, dont we have the right to keep it or throw it away just like any other gift? (for the confused, the previous sentence argues that a person with a grave illness that would make them suffer for a year or so and then die has the right to choose to die now) i was very certain that the negative side would use the "gift from god" thing and then the affirmative will counterattack with this bomb. then the negatives would scratch their heads and turn to "borrowed life". that was when i was reminded of the questions i had about religion. borrowed life? sounds just like a workaround to "gift of life" since like i said, any gift given to you is yours and you have full control. which scared the religious dudes so they changed it to borrowed so that now we have no control and they have. then i thought, arent we the ones to decide what to borrow? take for example the beggar out on the street. why would he borrow that kind of life? why not a life of wealth and health and big-boobed babes in bikinis? i mean, would you go to a video rental and rent a video that you know is absolute crap?! no. me, i'd take a nice horror-flick and some porn. so no, it cant be a borrowed life because i did not chose it. and if it's not a gift, then it's a forced life. "here, this is life, take it and live it. it comes with free will so it's upto you how you wanna live it. but you'll be punished if you do the bad stuff. oh and it has built in original sin so no matter how good you think you are, you're still a born sinner. you can just embrace that fact and sin all your life, but then you'll be punished for each sin you commit. so i would suggest you do good, because if you do good, maybe, and just maybe, you can get somethin good in return. but dont expect it, because expecting it is wrong. so just live this life with your free will but it is highly recommended that you do good. or else." by the way, i am not questioning god. i know he's out there, but he's just not exactly the way we're told. i mean, take for example the bible. i believe that god's word cant be put on paper. sure he spoke to the people who wrote it, but that was a long long time ago. there's gotta be some mistranslations there. for instance, try this test. find a free translation website and type a sentence in english and have it translated into another language. then copy the translated sentence and translate it back to english. it will not be the same with the one you started. that took like, a minute. imagine what thousands of years of translation could do. i mean, not even all english bibles are the same. and plus, the bible has plotholes. like who was cain's wife? eve?! i asked a priest this and he said that the bible shouldnt be taken literally. so it's all just symbolisms?! then he said that not all in the bible should be taken literally, some should be. so who chose which was real and which was not?! and another thing, if i copied the whole bible verbatim in a notebook, is my notebook the holy bible? surely it is, because that's the word of god right there, just handwritten. if not, then what will make it holy? use ink that has holy water? and how is holy water holy anyway? because a priest blessed it?! if a priest blessed my pee, will it become holy pee? and blessed shit be holy shit? why should we believe these priests and preachers anwyay? they have original sin too. sheesh. i'll stop now. i get carried away with this one. always. i apologize if i offended anyone, but im not saying sorry for what i said. my opinions. love to hear yours.

remember my entry about just for laughs? well, here's a video from a similar show of a prank that went wrong. very wrong...



anyways, that's today's entry, dear friendly friends! let's all hope and pray that this one and the succeeding ones stay put! keep smiling and take care out there!

Monday, October 02, 2006

random

applause to gma for their new aquaman rip-off fantasy series, atlantika. you know what this means, kids! more stolen concepts, more stupid dialogue, more "cliffhanger" scenes where the characters just stand there and stare at each other, more boasts of "hollywood-worthy" cgi effects that they never keep up, more obvioisly choreographed fight sequences, more plotholes and inconsistencies, and of course, more bad acting. quality entertainment my ass!

layla's been acting really weird lately. missing-object-that-you-find-when-you're-not-lookin-for-it-anymore weird.

that was some terrible typhoon, eh? couldnt go to work (and even if i did get there i wont be able to work anyways since there was no electricity) so i was in bed the whole time. sounded like god opened up a can of whoop-ass. all i could think of was: sodom and gomorrah. and giant kittens.

i miss being inside a movie theater. i wanna watch crank, talladega nights, pulse, and dead or alive. this week it's spanish film fest once again and hopefully layla and i will be able to catch more good peliculas. for 50 bucks. and, if fate allows, win the grand prize which we didnt win last year (it was a trip to spain, not sure if it's the same now).

i still hate seeing song lyrics on blogs.

a couple of things i wish for in the future: better batteries and zero loading screens.

misa campo. google her. now.

err... im off to watch smallville season six premiere and the descent. after that i'll do some ps2-ing again while waiting for the live telecast of the amazing race 10. then im takin the next train to dream city. or if im lucky, nightmareville.